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Re: terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement
- From: cyg Simple <cygsimple at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 17:14:08 -0500
- Subject: Re: terminfo and /usr/share/terminfo requirement
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> There's no /share directory in a standard Cygwin installation. /usr is
> a real dir within your Cygwin installation dir. It doesn't have to be
> mounted, nor does /usr/share, which is also created by setup-${arch}.exe
> by default.
>
So straight out of the archive, we have a PREFIX/usr directory which
contains a few other items including a share/ directory. If you now
start Cygwin the output of /bin/mount will show /usr/bin and /usr/lib
are automounted. That is not true for /usr/share. This causes the
terminal interface to be broken because /usr/share/terminfo cannot be
found. If I then 'mount `cygpath -m /` /usr' the terminal interface
finds /usr/share/terminfo and all is fine and works well.
It is true that I am not using setup-${arch}.exe but that shouldn't
matter as long as I have the dependencies resolved.
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